diff --git a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/app-rawmode-mouse.test.ts b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/app-rawmode-mouse.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2c5080162ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/app-rawmode-mouse.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import { EventEmitter } from 'events'
+import React, { useContext, useEffect } from 'react'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+import StdinContext from './components/StdinContext.js'
+import Text from './components/Text.js'
+import Ink from './ink.js'
+import { DISABLE_MOUSE_TRACKING } from './termio/dec.js'
+
+class FakeTty extends EventEmitter {
+  chunks: string[] = []
+  columns = 80
+  rows = 24
+  isTTY = true
+  isRaw = false
+
+  ref(): void {}
+  unref(): void {}
+  read(): null {
+    return null
+  }
+  setEncoding(): this {
+    return this
+  }
+  setRawMode(mode: boolean): this {
+    this.isRaw = mode
+    return this
+  }
+  write(chunk: string | Uint8Array, cb?: (err?: Error | null) => void): boolean {
+    this.chunks.push(typeof chunk === 'string' ? chunk : Buffer.from(chunk).toString('utf8'))
+    cb?.()
+    return true
+  }
+}
+
+const tick = () => new Promise<void>(resolve => setImmediate(resolve))
+
+// A child that grabs the last useInput consumer's raw-mode toggle. Mounting
+// enables raw mode (count 0→1); unmounting disables it (count 1→0), which is
+// the teardown path that must DISABLE_MOUSE_TRACKING so DEC 1003 hover can't
+// leak as cooked-mode `35;col;row M` text over the prompt.
+function RawModeConsumer({ active }: { active: boolean }) {
+  const { setRawMode, isRawModeSupported } = useContext(StdinContext)
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!active || !isRawModeSupported) {
+      return
+    }
+
+    setRawMode(true)
+
+    return () => setRawMode(false)
+  }, [active, isRawModeSupported, setRawMode])
+
+  return React.createElement(Text, null, 'x')
+}
+
+describe('App raw-mode teardown', () => {
+  it('disables mouse tracking when the last raw-mode consumer detaches', async () => {
+    const stdout = new FakeTty()
+    const stdin = new FakeTty()
+    const stderr = new FakeTty()
+    const ink = new Ink({
+      exitOnCtrlC: false,
+      patchConsole: false,
+      stderr: stderr as unknown as NodeJS.WriteStream,
+      stdin: stdin as unknown as NodeJS.ReadStream,
+      stdout: stdout as unknown as NodeJS.WriteStream
+    })
+
+    // Mouse tracking is asserted on the alt screen; the teardown path lives in
+    // App, independent of who enabled tracking.
+    ink.setAltScreenActive(true, 'all')
+    ink.render(React.createElement(RawModeConsumer, { active: true }))
+    ink.onRender()
+    await tick()
+    expect(stdin.isRaw).toBe(true)
+
+    stdout.chunks = []
+
+    // Drop the consumer → raw-mode count hits 0 → teardown runs.
+    ink.render(React.createElement(RawModeConsumer, { active: false }))
+    ink.onRender()
+    await tick()
+
+    expect(stdin.isRaw).toBe(false)
+    expect(stdout.chunks.join('')).toContain(DISABLE_MOUSE_TRACKING)
+
+    ink.unmount()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
index ced4bcfc562..5ac9ec7f7d0 100644
--- a/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
+++ b/ui-tui/packages/hermes-ink/src/ink/components/App.tsx
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import type { DOMElement } from '../dom.js'
 import { EventEmitter } from '../events/emitter.js'
 import { InputEvent } from '../events/input-event.js'
 import { TerminalFocusEvent } from '../events/terminal-focus-event.js'
+import instances from '../instances.js'
 import {
   INITIAL_STATE,
   type ParsedInput,
@@ -309,6 +310,21 @@ export default class App extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
             }
           })
         })
+
+        // Re-assert mouse tracking on raw-mode re-entry. <AlternateScreen>
+        // owns the initial enable, but its effect only re-runs on a
+        // mode/writeRaw change — NOT on a raw-mode bounce (count 1→0→1, e.g.
+        // an overlay that briefly drops the last useInput consumer). The
+        // teardown above now DISABLE_MOUSE_TRACKING's to stop the cooked-echo
+        // leak, so without this the terminal would be left with tracking off
+        // and the mouse silently dead until the next stdin-gap/resize
+        // re-assert. reassertTerminalModes() is gated on altScreenActive and
+        // idempotent, so it's a no-op when there's nothing to restore.
+        // Deferred (same setImmediate discipline as the XTVERSION probe) so it
+        // lands after any alt-screen enable writes in this render cycle.
+        setImmediate(() => {
+          instances.get(this.props.stdout)?.reassertTerminalModes()
+        })
       }
 
       this.rawModeEnabledCount++
@@ -324,6 +340,15 @@ export default class App extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
       this.props.stdout.write(DFE)
       // Disable bracketed paste mode
       this.props.stdout.write(DBP)
+      // Disable mouse tracking. Tracking is asserted by <AlternateScreen> /
+      // the Ink instance, NOT here — but dropping raw mode + detaching the
+      // readable listener while DEC 1003 hover stays on means the terminal
+      // falls back to cooked-mode echo and every mouse move leaks as text
+      // (`35;col;row M` shards over the prompt). Same hazard handleSuspend()
+      // already guards against; this teardown path missed it. Idempotent
+      // (no-op if tracking was never on), and re-enabling raw mode below
+      // re-asserts tracking so a transient drop→re-add round-trips cleanly.
+      this.props.stdout.write(DISABLE_MOUSE_TRACKING)
       stdin.setRawMode(false)
       stdin.removeListener('readable', this.handleReadable)
       stdin.unref()